Heat – too much in the air and oceans.
Camera – for focus and attention.
Action – what we need.
The planet’s losing
We’re in a hole. But this is how we get out.
More hope, more agency.
It’s the shape of all our lives. And this new, regular podcast of personal stories aims to create hope.
The podcast host is Jules Pretty. Author, storyteller and emeritus professor at the University of Essex. Each episode is a conversation with a guest, mostly on location outdoors; sometimes online.
What can we do?
The pantry is full of ingredients. Support for low-carbon, nature-positive, and equitable policies, institutions, and technologies is growing fast at local, national and international levels. Story says, lift your courage.
Watch the 5 minute podcast trailer here (or listen on your podcast feed).
New visions
In this podcast series, we hear from culture heroes and wanderers, new leaders, crossers of boundaries and story-tellers. The guests are authors and poets, artists and scientists, environmental and business leaders, farmers and conservationists, local and national activists, festival directors, therapists and religious leaders.
All are storytellers too, and can bring something positive to the thinking and action about current crises. There will be equal numbers of women and men as guests. They will be sharing their ideas on how we get out of the hole, for good.
Good story is not just a hiding place. It’s a finding place.
- You hear that? A pebble strikes your bedroom window at midnight.
- What now! More horror? Or something fine and wonderful?
- This podcast is all about living on abundant earth.
May launch date
The pod launches on 29 May with two episodes; then two more on 3 June; then weekly on Wednesdays at 6am.
The audio versions of each episode will be on all commercial podcast platforms (Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Podcast Addict, Podchaser). The film versions will be on our YouTube channel.
Subscription on all these channels is free.
The wide range of subjects in the first series of Heat! Camera! Action!
- Anita Roy on nature writing and making stuff happen in transition towns
- Lloyd Peck on living in the Antarctic and how it’s changed over two decades
- Phoebe Barnard on the science of climate and need for public engagement
- Rupert Read on thrutopia and how to activate the climate majority
- Ian Collins on the life and home of Ronald Blythe
- Jacquie McGlade on hope from the Global South and the value of talk in international negotiations
- Genevieve Christie on the cultural and environmental values of a free-festival at the coast
- Rich Yates on leading Essex Wildlife Trust and the social values of nature recovery
- Mandy Haggith on poetry as a method for climate and nature action – verse can’t make it worse
- Nicky Saunter on making masks and how people really love beavers
- Ben Goldsmith on the personal journeys and potential of rewilding
- Simon Lyster on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy and bringing joy to conservation
- Denise Baden on the power of positive stories
- Jo Roberts on the power of wilderness therapy to change lives
- Anthony Nanson on oral story-telling and its fundamental connection to ecology
- James Canton on renaturing and the transformation of The Two-Acre Field
- Aria Mckenna on the greening of Hollywood and building bridges for global cooling
- Roger Morris on having to close rural churches because of climate change
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